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FEAP => Installation => Topic started by: Sharbel on August 11, 2020, 09:37:54 PM

Title: Catastrophic error: could not set locale "" to allow processing of multibyte cha
Post by: Sharbel on August 11, 2020, 09:37:54 PM

I am trying to install parallel feap 84 in my allocation in a supercomputer operating on Linux.
When I am in the last step, running the command "make install" I get the following message:

make[1]: Entering directory `/home1/*****/********/Feap/ver84/unix' 
make[2]: Entering directory `/home1/*****/********/Feap/ver84/unix'                                                     
Catastrophic error: could not set locale "" to allow processing of multibyte characters                                                                                                                                                         compilation aborted for x11u.c (code 4)                                                                                 
make[2]: *** [/home1/*****/********/Feap/ver84/Feap8_4.a(x11u.o)] Error 1                                               
make[2]: Leaving directory `/home1/*****/********/Feap/ver84/unix'                                                     
make[1]: *** [archive] Error 1                                                                                         
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home1/*****/********/Feap/ver84/unix'                                                     
make: *** [archive] Error 2 

Note that *****/******** replace some information that I am hiding

Title: Re: Catastrophic error: could not set locale "" to allow processing of multibyte cha
Post by: Prof. S. Govindjee on August 11, 2020, 10:36:59 PM

The compiler and/or environment is faulty.

Try setting the LANG environment variable:

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export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

For further information perform a google search on

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: could not set locale "" to allow processing of multibyte characters

Title: Re: Catastrophic error: could not set locale "" to allow processing of multibyte cha
Post by: Prof. S. Govindjee on August 11, 2020, 10:37:58 PM

One other comment.  You really should upgrade to version 8.6 or you will run into issues with PETSc versions, picky compilers, etc.

Title: Re: Catastrophic error: could not set locale "" to allow processing of multibyte cha
Post by: Sharbel on August 11, 2020, 11:06:59 PM

Quote from: Prof. S. Govindjee on August 11, 2020, 10:36:59 PM

The compiler and/or environment is faulty.

Try setting the LANG environment variable:

Code: [Select]

export LANG=en_US.UTF-8

For further information perform a google search on

Code: [Select]

: could not set locale "" to allow processing of multibyte characters

Thank you Professor, it worked